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| 2 | VirtualBox for OS/2 OSE Edition ALPHA
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| 3 | =====================================
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Version 1.5.51_OSE_27858
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| 6 |
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| 7 | 03.02.2008
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| 8 |
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| 9 |
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| 10 | This is an early development build of VirtualBox OSE Edition for OS/2.
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| 11 | Please backup your data and don't expect everything to be highly polished
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| 12 | and tuned just yet. If you find a *new* problem, meaning something
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| 13 | not listed below, please report it at http://forums.virtualbox.org.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | This package is an official unofficial build of VirtualBox for OS/2.
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| 16 | It means that it is coordinated by volunteers from Sun Microsystems that
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| 17 | are still in touch with OS/2 and keep patching VirtualBox at their spare
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| 18 | time to make sure it runs and more or less works under OS/2.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OS/2 HOST (AND THEREFORE THE OS/2 VERSION OF
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| 21 | VIRTUALBOX) IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED BY SUN MICROSYSTEMS! DO NOT
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| 22 | CONTACT SUN MICROSYSTEMS REGARDING THE OS/2 VERSION OF VIRTUALBOX NO
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| 23 | MATTER WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS ABOUT! THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
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| 24 |
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| 25 |
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| 26 | Current Issues / TODOs
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| 27 | ----------------------
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| 28 |
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| 29 | * FE/Qt (Qt GUI frontend):
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| 30 |
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| 31 | - Mouse pointer shape in mouse integration mode.
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| 32 | - NumLock/ScrollLock synchronization.
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| 33 | - Seamless mode (no top-level window transparency on OS/2).
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| 34 | - Keyboard driver to intercept system key combinations
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| 35 | (Alt+Tab etc.)
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| 36 |
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| 37 | * Devices:
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| 38 |
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| 39 | - Host Floppy/DVD.
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| 40 | - Audio.
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| 41 | - Host interface networking.
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| 42 | - Internal networking.
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| 43 | - USB proxying.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | * Misc:
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| 46 |
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| 47 | - Shared clipboard.
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| 48 | - Starting more than one VM simultaneously.
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| 49 | - Installer.
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| 50 | - VMX support.
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| 51 | - VBoxSDL (resizing/scaling/keyboard/slowness).
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| 52 | - Very slow Resume after Pause in real mode guest applications.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Also, please pay attention to the section called "OS/2 Specific Features"
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| 55 | below.
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| 56 |
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| 57 |
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| 58 | How to "Install" and Run
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| 59 | ------------------------
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| 60 |
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| 61 | 1. Unpack this archive somewhere.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | 2. Make sure you have a dot (.) in your LIBPATH statement in CONFIG.SYS.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | 3. Put the following line at the beginning of your CONFIG.SYS
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| 66 | and reboot:
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| 67 |
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| 68 | DEVICE=<somewhere>\VBoxDrv.sys
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| 69 |
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| 70 | 4. Go to <somewhere> and run VirtualBox.exe (Qt GUI frontend).
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| 71 |
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| 72 | 5. Note that by default VirtualBox stores all user data in the
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| 73 | %HOME%\.VirtualBox directory. If %HOME% is not set, it will use
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| 74 | the <boot_drive>:\.VirtualBox directory. In either case, you may
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| 75 | overwrite the location of this directory using the VBOX_USER_HOME
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| 76 | environment variable.
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| 77 |
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| 78 | 6. For best performance, it is recommended to install the VirtualBox
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| 79 | Guest Additions to the guest OS. The archive containing the ISO
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| 80 | image with Guest Additions for supported guest OSes (Windows,
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| 81 | Linux, OS/2) is named
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| 82 |
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| 83 | VBoxGuestAdditions_XXXXX.zip
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| 84 |
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| 85 | where XXXXX is the version number (it's best if it matches the version
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| 86 | number of this VirtualBox package).
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| 87 |
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| 88 | Download this ZIP from the same location you took this archive from
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| 89 | and unpack the contents to the directory containing VirtualBox.exe.
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| 90 | After that, you can mount the Additions ISO in the Qt GUI by selecting
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| 91 | Devices -> Install Guest Additions... from the menu.
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| 92 |
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| 93 |
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| 94 | Documentation and Support
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| 95 | -------------------------
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| 96 |
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| 97 | Please visit http://www.virtualbox.org where you can find a lot of useful
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| 98 | information about VirtualBox. There is a Community section where you can
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| 99 | try to request some help from other OS/2 users of VirtualBox.
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| 100 |
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| 101 | You can download the User Manual for the latest official release of
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| 102 | VirtualBox using this URL:
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| 103 |
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| 104 | http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf
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| 105 |
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| 106 |
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| 107 | OS/2 Specific Features
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| 108 | ----------------------
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| 109 |
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| 110 | This section describes the features that are specific to the OS/2 version
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| 111 | of VirtualBox and may be absent in versions for other platforms.
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| 112 |
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| 113 | 1. System key combinations such as Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Esc are currently always
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| 114 | grabbed by the host and never reach the guest even when the keyboard
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| 115 | is captured. In order to send these combinations to the guest OS, use
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| 116 | the following shortcuts (where Host is the host key defined in the
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| 117 | global settings dialog):
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| 118 |
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| 119 | Host+` (Tilde/Backquote) => Ctrl+Esc
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| 120 | Host+1 => Alt+Tab
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| 121 | Host+2 => Alt+Shift+Tab
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| 122 |
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| 123 | 2. If you use two or more keyboard layouts on the OS/2 host (e.g. English
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| 124 | and Russian), make sure that the keyboard is switched to the English
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| 125 | layer when you work in the VirtualBox VM console window. Otherwise, some
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| 126 | shortcuts that involve the Host key (in particluar, all Host+<latin_letter>
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| 127 | shortcuts like Host+Q) may not work. Please note that the guest keyboard
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| 128 | layout has nothing to do with the host layout so you will still be able to
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| 129 | switch layouts in the guest using its own means.
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| 130 |
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| 131 | 3. Make sure you do not do 'set LIBPATHSTRICT=T' in the environment you start
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| 132 | VirtualBox from: it will make the VirtualBox keyboard hook screw up your
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| 133 | host desktop (a workaround is to be found).
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| 134 |
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| 135 |
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| 136 | History of Changes
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| 137 | ------------------
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| 138 |
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| 139 | * 03.02.2008
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| 140 |
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| 141 | - Initial release.
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| 142 |
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| 143 | * XX.XX.XXXX
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| 144 |
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| 145 | - Fixed: VirtualBox would hang or crash frequently on SMP machines in
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| 146 | ACPI mode.
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| 147 |
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| 148 | - Fixed: VBoxSDL keyboard key event to scan code conversion [contributed
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| 149 | by Paul Smedley].
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